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Between Ausländer And Almancı: The Transnational History Of Turkish-German Migration, Michelle Lynn Kahn
Between Ausländer And Almancı: The Transnational History Of Turkish-German Migration, Michelle Lynn Kahn
History Faculty Publications
Although he had anticipated feeling happy in his homeland, Erdem was “shocked” to find himself the target of discrimination when he visited Turkey in 1991. A second-generation Turkish migrant born and raised in West Germany, the longhaired 21-year-old who played in a garage band called Apocalyptica stuck out from the local Turks. “You can’t imagine how crazy these people were,” he recalled. “They had an olfactory sense. They could smell that I was from Germany.” Twice, this prejudice turned to violence. Erdem was “lynched,” in his words, once at a discotheque and once while strolling along the sea- side. In …
Learning To Live With The Other Germany In The Post-Wall Federal Republic, Kathrin M. Bower
Learning To Live With The Other Germany In The Post-Wall Federal Republic, Kathrin M. Bower
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications
After forty years of separation, neither the West Germans nor the East Germans were prepared for the impact of reunification. But had the peoples of the two countries developed separate cultural identities to such an extent that the dissolution of the border represented merely the illusion of a return to sociocultural community? Since the collapse of the East German state in 1989 and the subsequent suturing of divided Germany in 1990, scores of books and articles have been published on the economic and political conditions that led inexorably, or less so, to the demise of the GDR, as well as …